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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Philip Oltermann European culture editor

Stolen Chagall and Picasso artworks found in Antwerp basement

One of the recovered paintings, Tête by Pablo Picasso.
One of the recovered paintings, Tête by Pablo Picasso. Photograph: Parquet Of Namur/Reuters

Two paintings by Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso have been recovered from a basement in the Belgian city of Antwerp, 14 years after they were stolen from an art collector in Israel.

The two artworks, a cubist portrait by Picasso known simply as Tête and Chagall’s L’homme en prière, showing a man praying, were stolen in February 2010 from a Tel Aviv villa owned by the Herzikovich family.

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